Hey everyone, I have been working on this TDS Game for a while now and I am about ready to release a Pre-Alpha version, but when I opened the project today I was surprised to see skulls on almost all my sprites! I'll show a picture below to show you guys what I mean.

Do you have a pirated version of GMS? - That might explain the pirate skulls

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I saw a site that was hosting stolen copies of GM studio and was ready to report it to YYG but looks like they already have it under control. :D

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Please don't ASSUME folk are using pirated copies, sometimes a virus or something can effect an exe and gives some issue like this.

The current solution is to uninstall, delete both %appdata%\GameMaker-Studio and %localappdata%\GameMaker-Studio, delete the GameMaker-Studio registry key, scan your machine in case its a virus, and then reinstall.

The program assumes a modded .exe is a crack, but this isn't always the case as a virus can also change it. I also have a feeling theres something else changing exe's.....

If your still having issues, get in touch with the help desk, let them know your key...and we'll see what we can do to help.

With that being said, mike, I have a site to report. I'll send it to you in a PM...

Edit: double sorry to the OP

Edited by time-killer-games, 24 November 2012 - 06:19 PM.

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Thank you Mike, I will uninstall it and download again when I get on my computer. And no problem everyone, I do not have a cracked version of GameMaker Studio and this error only happened on this game not any of my others.

Yeah, it's been reported several times this latest patch. I am assuming it might actually be a bug where the anti-piracy measures are being a tad zealous. Someone also reported a skull issue after crashing GMX by loading really large assets.

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I'm getting the same problem. It is a very small project, and it isn't a cracked version. I hadn't seen it before until today, both before and after the latest update. I had 1.1.676, and I upgraded to 1.1.677, and both versions are doing it. My solution for the moment is to simply reload the sprites, which lasts until GM does it again. I only have two sprites so it isn't much hassle, at least until Yoyo fixes it.

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My KBInput system is now on the marketplace here. It wraps up nice and tight GMStudio's input system into a few function calls making a user configurable input system that works the same regardless of what inputs the player has chosen including keyboard, mouse buttons, and gamepad/joysticks using DInput/XInput. The support forum topic for it is here.

Ok well as an update to everyone, I uninstalled GM:Studio and deleted the registry files, then re-installed it but that only worked until I fixed all my sprites, after that I ran the game and bam they had more pirates then ever (about 5 per sprite). And I also realized that this only started happening after this past update, did they do something that would cause this or what because this is a major deal and I need this problem fixed for the game to stay on track.

I got the exact same thing! Random skull keep on popping up on my sprites! I also have an orriginal version from Game Maker Studio.I also got it after the last update.. -.-I wish I never updated it.. It's freaking me out!I made a video from it: https://www.youtube....h?v=hrEHAyBGsW4

The current solution is to uninstall, delete both %appdata%\GameMaker-Studio and %localappdata%\GameMaker-Studio, delete the GameMaker-Studio registry key, scan your machine in case its a virus, and then reinstall.

I have done this and it worked for a short while but now its happening again. I am using v1.1.666. Any other suggestions to fix this?

I uninstalled and deleted my appdata folders. Upon reinstalling version 1.1.167 it so far is working fine. I believe that the issue is that somehow the updater itself is corrupting the executable, or the size of executable that the anti-piracy code is looking is set wrong. My computer is clean, so I doubt it would happen due to any virii, and the same as others, it started happening with version 1.1.166, though updating to 1.1.167 did not fix the problem until I reinstalled.

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My KBInput system is now on the marketplace here. It wraps up nice and tight GMStudio's input system into a few function calls making a user configurable input system that works the same regardless of what inputs the player has chosen including keyboard, mouse buttons, and gamepad/joysticks using DInput/XInput. The support forum topic for it is here.

Ok I think my problem is fixed, although it has only been a couple hours so I am going to be weary. But I am going to go ahead and say that it is most likely the latest update that had messed everything up. Hopefully the YoYo Games team can fix this in the next couple of days so that I can start working on my game again (I have not even tried working on my main project over the fear of it just adding more of those pirates).

Ok so everything seems to be working again and my game isn't getting messed with anymore. I'm glad that it was fixed, but this problem put me back a day or so on releasing my game ' and hopefully it won't come back.

Hello,
I have downloaded a free version to try out few days ago, and now I got these skulls all over my sprites. I have managed to fix it after few hours, but now this gets me thinking if this kind of thing is going to pop out often, then I don't see the point in buying a pro version that I already decided to buy.
I had to re-import entire graphics all over again, and luckily this was just a small tryout before I start to do anything more serious( buy pro-version), so not much of graphics.
Then it got me thinking what if I had tons of graphics, I really have second thoughts now. This error is a huge time waste.

The same thing happens to me, actually, i came right now to find or make a thread about it, i tried updating to 1.1.676 but no luck :l i get those damn skulls that keep giving me work.
Where do we ask for a fix?

EDIT: i tried the fix posted here and i worked wonders, no more skull pirates :] i'm a game maker, not a pirate. Thanks alot to mike.dailly.

Hello,I have downloaded a free version to try out few days ago, and now I got these skulls all over my sprites. I have managed to fix it after few hours, but now this gets me thinking if this kind of thing is going to pop out often, then I don't see the point in buying a pro version that I already decided to buy.I had to re-import entire graphics all over again, and luckily this was just a small tryout before I start to do anything more serious( buy pro-version), so not much of graphics.Then it got me thinking what if I had tons of graphics, I really have second thoughts now. This error is a huge time waste.

I think you should still buy Studio, even though this error wasted a whole day of development for me and my team, I am not going to give up using it. As long as the staff knows what has been happening to a lot of people recently since the last update and fix it I will continue to use it and buy more exports. But if I where you, I would continue to use the Free version until this is fixed.

DRM is, and always will be, a huge failure. It fails to do the one thing it was designed to do, that is stopping piracy. In addition, it just causes unnecessary trouble for the legitimate users, which is easy to see here.

Even if a program does implement DRM proper, it doesn't sabotage or vandalize projects like Game Maker: Studio does, especially for the ones who are not pirating the software. This is just really bad. I don't even know where to start.

Edited by Big J, 26 November 2012 - 04:58 AM.

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When I first updated to 1.1.676 from 1.1.666, 5pice froze before I even had to chance to see any skulls. It forced me to do a full reinstall, and as of today it is still working properly (knock on wood). This is probably caused by a faulty delta that changed the GUI to something that still ran for some of you but appeared to be tampered with.